According to the European Clothing Action Plan, each person will buy on average 26.7kg of clothing each year.

If you gathered all the garments you bought in a year, how would you stack up compared to the average? Do you purchases amount to a neat pile of carefully considered items – or are you staring at a mountain of clothes you can barely remember buying, let alone wearing?

If you’re closer to the latter, chances are you could do to rein in your fast fashion habit.

Wherever she goes in the world, the Duchess of Cambridge is praised for her personal style – whether she’s wearing a glitzy designer gown for a red carpet event, or a sporty ensemble for a daytime activity.

On the royal tour of Pakistan, which started on Monday, Kate has already impressed locals by embracing traditional dress and wearing items by Pakistani designers, with many drawing comparisons with Diana, Princess of Wales’ own visits to the country.

The five-day trip started with Kate and the Duke of Cambridge touching down near Islamabad.

Move over burgundy, spiced orange and earthy brown, there’s a new colour that’s set to dominate our autumn style – and it’s inspired by the zingiest shade in the paintbox.

Yellow might not seem like the easiest trend to rock year-round, but with a few simple style cues, it can easily become the hardest working hue in your wardrobe.

If you’re already reaching for your lemon blazer or dusting off your canary clutch bag, take note: This season’s trend is all about a delicious shade called ‘egg yolk’.

Most of us don’t get to wear designer clothing, or make it onto the front row of the latest catwalk show, so resign ourselves to scrolling through beautiful outfits and artistic runways on Instagram instead.

But what if you want more of an insight into the world of high fashion? Admittedly, it’s not always an accessible place, but thankfully some big names have allowed cameras to roll behind closed doors.

Usually, Chanel makes headlines at Paris Fashion Week thanks to its spectacular sets and stellar front row, but today there was another reason the French house’s show had tongues wagging.

During the finale of its spring/summer 2020 extravaganza – the set for which was created to look like the rooftops of Paris – a woman dressed in a houndstooth suit ran out of the audience, jumped on the catwalk and joined the line of models as they completed a last circuit of the set.

If you’ve been living in floaty floral dresses all summer, you might be mourning the start of autumn and the arrival of woolly jumpers and teddy coats in the shops.

But just because winter is on the way doesn’t mean you have to abandon flower-powered prints altogether.

The new season collections are full of flowery frocks ideal for autumn – you just need to know how to style them now that it’s too cold for sandals and denim jackets.

It may not have as prestigious a reputation as the likes of diamonds, rubies or emeralds, but there’s one stone that’s decidedly on-trend at the moment, and that’s opal.

While opals can be many colours, it’s the paler versions of the gem that jewellery designers are loving right now, and it just so happens that its birthstone month, October, is here.

What you wear to attend fashion week is just as important – if not more so – than the outfits being sent down the catwalk.

The streets outside venues turn into impromptu runways, and show-goers pull no punches with their carefully-curated outfits. New York, London, Milan and Paris all have their very distinctive vibe when it comes to the fashion shows, and the same goes for the style on the streets.

Alongside all the bike shorts, crop tops, thigh-slit slip dresses and other garments that leave little to the imagination, there was one trend that stood out on the autumn/winter 2019 catwalks because it was so surprisingly sensible: cardigans.

That’s right, the knitted button-downs traditionally beloved by grannies, grandpas and librarians are back, and this time they’ve got the designer seal of approval.

Thanks to the rise of so-called ‘ugly’ fashion trends, colour clashing has become much more prevalent on the red carpet. The 71st Emmy Awards were no different, giving us a masterclass in how to ‘match’ red and pink hues.

We’ve had it drilled into us from an early age that it’s a colour combination you just don’t wear unless you want to give yourself a headache. But, fashion rules are made to be broken, and the Emmys purple carpet is the best place to do it.